CentOS - Apr 2018 - Semi-OT: install python package in userspace

On Fri, April 6, 2018 11:42 am, Richard Demeny wrote:
> Just sudo it
This is exactly why I have big reservation in giving users sudo
permissions. If they need sudo on UNIX or Linux for small thing like this,
then they have no idea what they are doing and can easily screw the system
up. Not to mention regular user should not hahe these permissions on
multi-user system. If they know enough to not screw system up, they do not
need almighty permissions and are able to install what they need into
userspace. The last is the goal of the OP.

Valeri
>
> On Fri, 6 Apr 2018 17:25 , <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>
>> CentOS 7 box. As there's no package in any of the repos, we're
trying to
>> install scikit-learn in the user's space. It refuses. My late try
was,
>> after d/l a .whl from last year, hoping that would work with the numpy
>> package in the regular repos, I did a pip install --user
>> scikit-learn...,
>> and it still seems to want to write to system space: OSError: [Errno
13]
>> Permission denied:
>> '/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/numpy-1.7.1.dist-info
>>
>> Anyone got any pointers?
>>
>>        mark
>>
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On Fri, 2018-04-06 at 11:50 -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
> On Fri, April 6, 2018 11:42 am, Richard Demeny wrote:
> > Just sudo it
> 
> This is exactly why I have big reservation in giving users sudo
> permissions. If they need sudo on UNIX or Linux for small thing like this,
> then they have no idea what they are doing and can easily screw the system
> up. Not to mention regular user should not hahe these permissions on
> multi-user system. If they know enough to not screw system up, they do not
> need almighty permissions and are able to install what they need into
> userspace. The last is the goal of the OP.
> 
+100

Nobody has sudo permissions on my systems. The most common report of a
sudo attempt on my CentOS systems is 'sudo apt-get update', although I
have had 'sudo passwd root' (they got a bollocking).

P.

> Am 07.04.2018 um 01:41 schrieb Pete Biggs <pete at biggs.org.uk>:
> 
> On Fri, 2018-04-06 at 11:50 -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
>> On Fri, April 6, 2018 11:42 am, Richard Demeny wrote:
>>> Just sudo it
>> 
>> This is exactly why I have big reservation in giving users sudo
>> permissions. If they need sudo on UNIX or Linux for small thing like
this,
>> then they have no idea what they are doing and can easily screw the
system
>> up. Not to mention regular user should not hahe these permissions on
>> multi-user system. If they know enough to not screw system up, they do
not
>> need almighty permissions and are able to install what they need into
>> userspace. The last is the goal of the OP.
>> 
> +100
> 
> Nobody has sudo permissions on my systems. The most common report of a
> sudo attempt on my CentOS systems is 'sudo apt-get update',
although I
> have had 'sudo passwd root' (they got a bollocking).
Does CentOS changed the package management? :-)

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